The Last Destination

Rest in Pieces. -The Last Destination Tagline

The Last Destination (also known as Last Destination 4) is a 2009 3-D supernatural horror film written by Erik Brass and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Last Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth (and originally final) installment to the Last Destination franchise, and the first of which to be shot in HD 3-D. The tagline is "Rest in Pieces".

The Last Destination was rated R (Restricted) in the United States of Robloxia by the RPAA for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language, and scenes of sexuality. In the Bloxia Kingdom, it was rated cert 15.

Plot

Eight years after the explosion of Flight 170, seven years after the Route 36 pileup and three years after Satan's Flight derailment, college student Nicholas O'Bryson has a premonition of a car crash while watching a race at McKiera Speedway for a study break, which sends debris into the audience, crushing some spectators and resulting in the stadium partially collapsing, killing almost everyone present in the 170 section. In a panic, Nicholas convinces his girlfriend Lora Milgan, and friends Henry Ryson and James Nothiham to leave, with the quartet being followed by a handful of others who become angry with Nicholas after he pushes past them to escape. A security guard named Georgie Lankstrom intervenes when everyone begins to argue outside, just as the catastrophe Nicholas had foreseen occurs.

Minutes later, a flying tire flies out of the racetrack and obliterates Nancy Malvi. After a memorial service at McKiera Speedway, Cory Dylan attempts to burn a cross on Georgie's front lawn as he blames him for his wife’s death, but his plan backfires, he is set on fire and violently dragged down the street by his own tow truck, he is then blown apart by it and his blown off head lands right next to Georgie who goes to see what is happening. The next day Samantha Lia is killed when a lawn mower rides over a rock, thrown in its path by her sons which is then shot right through her eye. Before their deaths, Nicholas had seen omens of clues of how they would die.

Hearing about Cory's and Samantha's deaths on the news, Nicholas and Lora begin doing research, and learn about the disasters that occurred in the previous films and discover that the survivors who were saved by premonitions began dying in a series of improbable accidents shortly afterwards. While Henry and James refuse to believe them, Nicholas and Lora manage to convince Georgie that Death is after them and the trio begin trying to warn the other remaining survivors.

Nicholas, Lora, and Georgie head over to Greatstate Customs to warn Andrew Koztov that he is next to die. Andrew fails to believe, but moments later he is struck by an oxygen tank, and diced into a metal grid fence. After Andrew's death, Nicholas goes to save Henry, while Lora and Georgie go to save James. They are successful in saving James from a malfunctioning car wash, but Nicholas is too late to save Henry when he fell into a malfunctioning meat grinder.

Nicholas then believes that saving James had broken the chain, and Lora and James celebrate by going to see Love Lays Dying in a mall. Nicholas then learns that another survivor, John Grains was found in the debris of the racetrack, and rushes to the hospital along with Georgie. They fail to save John from being crushed by an overflowing bathtub above his hospital room, and moments later, Georgie is hit by an ambulance. Nick then realizes it is up to him to save the duo, and rushes to the mall.

Once Nicholas arrives, he has another premonition showing him that Lora and James will die while watching the film in the shopping mall cinema after an explosion in a room behind the theater. Nicholas rushes to reach them, while Lora begins spotting omens warning her that the danger is not over. Once Nicholas arrives, he and Lora attempt to convince James to leave, but are unsuccessful in their efforts. James is killed in the explosion by a piece of shrapnel and Lora is squished to death by the gears of a malfunctioning escalator while escaping. But it all turns out to be part of a long premonition, Nicholas then realizes that the event has not happened yet but is unable to save Georgie when he dies just as predicted. Nicholas hurries to the cinema, and despite Death pinning him to a pillar with a nailgun, he is able to save his friends by extinguishing the fire by triggering the fire sprinklers that would have caused the initial explosion.

Two weeks later, Nicholas wearing a cast on his right arm, notices a loose pylon outside of their hangout and warns the workers about it before meeting Lora and James inside. Moments later he deduces that the mall disaster premonition was merely a red herring meant to lead them to where they needed to be for Death to strike. At that moment, the pylon collapses, causing a truck to swerve and crash into the restaurant, then running over and finally kills the last three survivors Nicholas, Lora and James together. As the final scene turns into an x-ray scene, James is shown to have been crushed under the tires while Lora's neck is snapped, decapitating her, and Nicholas is thrown into a wall, bashing his skull and jaw, sending one of his teeth flying into the camera before the credits begin to roll.

Cast

Trivia

• This is the second, and final, movie in which William Bludworth does not appear. The first one was Last Destination 3.
• This is the first Last Destination movie to be filmed in 3D (although the previous installment was originally supposed to have been).
• This the last Old Rope Cinema film to be released as an independent company.
• This is the shortest Last Destination movie ever made, only 82 minutes long, which is not even an hour and a half long, which is how long every other movie in the series has been.
• This was originally supposed to be the last film of the franchise (as alluded by the title), but it was later decided to make another 'final' entry as more of a return to form, presumably due to the negative reception of The Last Destination. Despite the negative reception, it was the highest grossing movie of the franchise at the time.
  • Aptly, the follow-up Last Destination 5 took the idea of going back to its roots in a very literal way, with its main storyline acting as an immediate prequel to the events of the original film; therefore, The Last Destination was the last film of the series, chronologically speaking, until 2025's Last Destination Bloodlost.
• In this film, the ways people die are based on visions that include items involved in the death but also retained the usual "clues" shown in previous movies.
• According to producer, Zavier Struginer was set to reprise his role as Zavier Bloodlost for The Last Destination but was unable to due to scheduling conflicts.
• This is the first in the series not to be composed by Shirley Walker, she died in 2006. In this film, she is replaced by Brian Tyler for the composing.
• The Last Destination is referenced in the opening credits of Last Destination 5 by a screwdriver hitting the screen.
• The bus that hits the cafe at the end of the film has the number 170 on it.
• A brief moment during the opening disaster is similar to a brief moment in Last Destination 2. After Nicholas (Kieran) has the vision, Lora (Shery) asks him (her) what is wrong, while the other two, James (Franklin) and Henry (Danny) do not seem to care.
• All of the main characters (with the exception of John Grains) appear in the ending credits of Last Destination 5.